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Subject: [MSMARSHA-L] Re: MSMARSHA-D Digest V01 #4
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 15:39:11 EST
Delores, Tried to e-mail you direct, got a return message, thought I'd use
the list.
You wrote in another messsage,
I checked another source for bio on Col. Sam Benton, who was his commander,
and found the following:
"...When the Thirty-Fourth Mississippi Regiment was organized at Holly
Springs April 19, 1862, Samuel Benton became Colonel. Soon after the Battle
of Shiloh, he took command of the Twenty-Fourth and Thirty-Seventh
Mississippi. On May 11, 1864, he took charge of his own Thirty-Fourth,
serving in the Battle of Reseca on Walthal's right, and at Kilb's farm on
June 22 and in the Atlanta Campaign. He was commissioned Brigadier General,
Army of the Confederate States of America, on July 26th of this year, and
fell, mortally wounded, two days later, in the fighting around Atlanta."
Could you possibly give me the name of the source for the above information?
I will later send to the list what little information I have on these units.
Thanks, Ron Hughes
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